Draw-string.



B. CLARK.

DRAW STRING.

APPLICATION rmzn MAR. 10, 1914.

1, 1 1 8,74 1. Patented Nov. 24, 191 1 WITNESSES INVE/VI'OR a jATTUR/VEYS HE NORRIS PETENS CO.: PHOTOLIT?! WASHiNGYON, D- C.

BERTHA CLARK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DRAW-STRING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Application filed March 10, 1914. Serial No. 823,709.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Bnn'rHA CLARK, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Draw-String, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved drawstringer band designed for use in the hem of a washable garment andarranged to enable the user to readily place the draw string into thehem or to remove ittherefrom whenever it is desired to wash the garment,to prevent one end of the draw string from accidentally slipping intothe hem while passing the other end through the hem, and to allow ofsecurely and quickly connecting and disconnecting the ends of the drawstring. In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made offa drawstring adapted to be insorted in the hem of a garment and fasteningmeans attached to the ends of said draw string for fastening the endstogether, one of the said end members having retaining means adapted toengage one end of the hem to hold this member against slipping into thehem.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference inclicate corresponding parts in alltheviews.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the draw string as applied to the hemin the waistband of a skirt, the end members of the draw string being inopen position; Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the end members ofthe draw string; and Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional plan view of thedraw string with the end members connected with each other.

The draw string F is adapted to engage the hem G in the waistband of askirt, and on the ends of the draw string F are attached the members Hand I, of which the member H is in the form of a loop adapted to engagethe button I of the member I, the button I having its base attached toor merging with a hook I in the form of a return bend of the plate Iprovided with a slot It engaged by the doubled-up end of the draw stringF. The loop member H is in the form of a bodkin and is passed throughcopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of ratenta,

the hem G and the member I is hooked onto the end of the hem G toprevent this member from slipping into the hem during the time the loopmember H is passed through the hem and out of the, other end thereof.When this has been done the loop member H is fastened by a few stitchesJ to theback of the hem G, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. The large end. ofthe opening H of this member H now extendsrearwardly and is engaged withthe head of the button,and then the shank of the button I is engagedwith the forward small end of the opening H so that the button I issecurely held in place on the loop member H, and the two members arecovered up by the now closed hem G of the waistband (see Fig. 4) so thata very neat finish is given to the waistband of the skirt when thelatter is closed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A draw string adapted to be inserted in the hem of a garment, a loopattached to one end of the said draw string, and a combined button andhook attached to the other end of the said draw string, the hook beingadapted to hook onto one end of the hem of the garment, the button beingon the free end of the said hook, and projecting outwardly opposite thehem and a distance from the said hem end.

2. A draw string adapted to be inserted in the hem of a garment, acombined loop and bodkin attached to one end of the said draw string andadapted to overlie the inner face of one end of the said hem, and acombined button and hook having a plate attached to the other end of thesaid draw string, the plate having at its forward end a return bent hookadapted to hook onto the open end of the hem of the garment, and abutton on the free end of the said hook and adapted to be engaged by thesaid combined bodkin and loop, the said button extending outwardlyopposite the hem and a distance from the end. thereof engaged by thehook. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. BERTHA CLARK. Witnesses:

Tnno. G. Hosrnn,

PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

Washington, D. 0."

